Marlies Mejias Garcia (Virginia’s Blue Ridge Twenty24) scored a repeat victory on stage 2 of the Tour of the Gila, successful stage 2 to Fort Bayard a lot within the method she did final 12 months.
The Cuban rider out-paced Yanina Kuskova (Tashkent City) and race chief Lauren Stephens (Cynisca) within the diminished bunch dash to retain the purple jersey.
Earlier within the stage, Anet Barrera (DNA Pro Cycling) went on the assault, as did Céclie Lejeune (Steve Tilford Foundation), Kuskova and Emily Erlich (Virginia’s Blue Ridge Twenty 24), however the race got here again collectively after the primary two climbs.
Elizabeth Dixon (Fount Cycling) staged a late assault earlier than the ultimate labeled climb and constructed up a lead of just about two minutes earlier than being caught with simply 3km to go.
The motion for elite girls on stage 2 for the Inner Loop Road Race p/b Brian & Lynn Robinson/SW Bone & Joint Institute started at Fort Bayard, established in 1866 to guard settlers shifting to southwest New Mexico.
Using a clockwise loop that crossed the Continental Divide twice, the ladies’s peloton traversed 74.1 miles (119.3km) throughout 6,103 ft (1,860 metres) of elevation achieve, the uphill end line for the ladies coming 2.1 miles earlier than the tip of the lads’s race. The route supplied three class 3 QOM’s – mile 11.6 mile (18.7km), mile 20.2 (32.5km) and mile 63.9 (102.8km) – plus two intermediate sprints, at mile 5.7 after which mile 41.5.
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